This is an analysis of the poem Remainder Of A Life that begins with:
If I were told:
By evening you will die,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXadaefXXghdbhgbdfXbXhchhXXegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101 110101 11011011 1111111 110101 1110 101111111101 111111 100110111 1100101 10101010110 110001100 1101101111 110101010001 111 101111 110110111 1110110101010 111010111 1110111 1111111 110011110 1101001011001000 11111101 0010111011 1111000 101 1010 11 111111101010 010001 1110101000101 011101101010001 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1156
- Average number of words per stanza: 224
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, white, one, and, it, that's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that's, then are repeated.
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